[W126 Coupe] To Kill An American

Wed Feb 15 16:17:24 EST 2006

I fail to see why anyone would make such a big deal of it. Why not just read it and if you dont like it.... Junk it.

Carl
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: mary t 
  To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists 
  Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 2:09 PM
  Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] To Kill An American

  The point was that the letter you are passing  is a known urban legend, not even true, and in general junk. Personally I have seen this same email in various forms over 3 years. If you have an opinion to express do it in a more meaningful manner, pass on news articles, write a letter and pass it on, whatever, but that type of foward is irritatingly junk and falls into the same genre as "my dog died from swiffer sweeper" and "some child has cancer if you pass it on she will be cured". Chain mail.  So I was just trying to impress upon you that it isnt really polite netiquette and in the future perhaps it would be a great idea to check if information is junk or not, snopes.com is very easy to use. 

  Carl Hansen <chansen at cogeco.ca> wrote:
    So what's your point??

    Maybe we better not ask to many questions about what an American is or some other truths may come up. There's a lot of opnions out there.

    CC

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: mary t 
      To: Mercedes Coupes Mailing Lists 
      Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 12:31 PM
      Subject: Re: [W126 Coupe] Fw: To Kill An American

      Sorry to piss on your parade but have you seen snopes.com Grea t place to look up fowards like this
      http://www.snopes.com/rumors/america2.htm

      Carl Hansen <chansen at cogeco.ca> wrote: 
        I do not usually Forward items that are forwarded me by the hundreds every
        day because
        I simly do not have the time and patien ce to go through it all,
        but this one sent from my brother in the USA I could not ignore.

        Subject: To Kill An American

        In response to an ad in a Pakistan newspaper:

        To Kill an American

        You probably missed it in the rush of news last week, but there was actually
        a
        report that someone in Pakistan had published in a newspaper an offer of a
        reward to anyone who killed an American, any American.

        So an A ustralian dentist wrot e an editorial the following day to let
        everyone
        know what an American is ... so they would know when they found one. (Good
        one, mate!!!!)

        1. An American is English, or French, or Italian, Irish, German, Spanish,
        Polish, Russian or Greek, or a Dane, Swede, a Norwegian, a Finn.
        An American may also be Canadian, Mexican, African, Islander or
        Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Australian, Iranian, As ian, or Arab, or
        Pakistani or Afghan.

        2. An American may also be a Comanche, Cher okee, Osage, Blackfoot, Navaho,
        Apache, Seminole or one of the many other tribes known as native Americans.

        3. An American is Christian, or he could be Jewish, or Buddhist, or Muslim.

        4. In fact, there are more Muslims in America than in Afghanistan. The only
        difference is that in America they are free to worship as each of them
        chooses.

        5. An American is also free to believe in no religion. For that he will
        answer
        only to God, not to the government, or to armed thugs claiming to speak for
        the government and for God.
        6. An American lives in the most prosperous land in the history of the
        world.

        7. The root of that prosperity can be found in the Declaration of
        Independence, which recognizes the God given right of each person to the
        pursuit of happiness.

        8. An Ame rican is generous. Americans have helped out just about every other
        nation in the world in their time of need, never asking a thing in return.
        < br>9. When Afghanistan was over-run by the Soviet army 20 years ago, Americans
        came with arms and supplies to enable the people to win back their country!

        10. As of the morning of September 11, Americans had given more than any
        other
        nation to the poor in Afghanistan. Americans welcome the best of
        everything...th e best products, the best books, the best music, the best
        food,
        the best services. But they also welcome the least.

        11. The nationa l symbol of America, The Statue of Liberty, welcomes your
        tired
        and your poor, the wretched refuse of your teeming shores, the homeless,
        tempest tossed.

        12. These in fact are the people who built America.

        13. Some of them were working in the Twin Towers the morning of September
        11,
        2001, earning a better life for their families. It's been told that the
        World
        Trade Center victims were from
        14. at least 30 different countries, cultures, and first languages,
        including
        those that aided and abetted the terrorists.

        15. So you can try to kill an American if you must. Hitler did.

        16. So did General Tojo, and Stalin, and Mao Tse-Tung, and other
        blood-thirsty
        tyrants in the world. But, in doing so you wou ld just be killing yourself.
        Because Americans are not a particular people from a particular place. They
        are the embodiment of the human spirit of freedom. Everyone who holds to
        that
        spirit, everywhere, is an American.

        Please keep this going!
        Pass this around the World,
        then pass it around again!
        It says it all, for all of us!

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